Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

To learn is to change how you think.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.

The stage is home, and there's no place like it.

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.